Telecommunications & Media Consulting Senior Manager

Accenture; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Communications & Media Client Group seeks a senior network leader to drive lifecycle leadership across design, build, and operate phases. You will leverage deep experience in fiber, wireless, and cable networks, integrating OSS and AI-enabled automation to deliver transformative outcomes for clients.

You will engage with CTOs and engineering leaders, translating tech shifts into investment roadmaps and operating-model changes, while optimizing capital efficiency and network performance

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise across the full network lifecycle—from strategy and design to deployment and operations.
• Experience across fiber/wireline, wireless (4G/5G, RAN/ORAN), and cable networks.
• OSS concepts including inventory, service order management, provisioning, discovery, reconciliation and service assurance.
• Knowledge of AI, GenAI and agentic automation in network design and operations.
• Ability to engage credibly with senior network stakeholders and translate technology shifts into business cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead network lifecycle design, build, and operate initiatives to drive value.
• Advise clients on multi-domain convergence and cost optimization across networks.
• Embed OSS capabilities into transformation programs and cloud-native architectures.
• Apply AI-driven insights to design, deployment, and autonomous operations.
• Engage senior executives to shape roadmaps and operating models.

Skills

Network lifecycle leadership

Multi-domain access expertise

OSS as an integral capability

AI and autonomous networks

Executive-grade client engagement

Job description

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.

We Are:

Accenture Communications & Media Client Group. Our deep industry expertise with digital innovation and leading-edge technology bring unique end-to-end services to clients. We drive tangible and sustained business outcomes, cost optimization, and stakeholder experiences bringing the power of One Accenture.

You Are:

Dynamic and passionate, you thrive on driving network-led transformation across the communications and media industry, partnering with operators, cable and fiber providers, and enterprises to reinvent how networks are designed, built, and operated in an AI-defined era.

• Network lifecycle leadership (Design / Build / Operate): You bring deep, hands-on expertise across the full network lifecycle—from network strategy, design and engineering, through deployment and build, to operations, optimization, and monetization—and you help clients accelerate outcomes and capital efficiency at every phase.
• Multi-domain access expertise: You have strong experience across fiber/wireline, wireless (4G/5G, RAN/ORAN), and cable networks, serving both consumer and enterprise segments, and you understand how convergence across these domains reshapes cost, experience, and growth.
• OSS as an integral capability: You are well-versed in OSS—inventory, service order management, activation and provisioning, discovery and reconciliation, and service assurance (fault, performance, and trouble management)—and you naturally weave OSS considerations into network-led transformation, from legacy simplification through to next-generation, API-first, cloud-native architectures.
• AI and autonomous networks: You understand how AI, GenAI, and agentic automation are transforming network design, deployment, and operations—from AI-enabled design and intelligent deployment to autonomous, self-healing operations and next-generation NOCs—and how to scale intelligence across the network to drive both cost and customer-experience outcomes.
• Executive-grade client engagement: You engage credibly with senior network stakeholders—CTO, Network Operations, Network/Capital Planning, and Engineering leadership—translating technology shifts into investment cases, roadmaps, and operating-model change, and coming across as a trusted thought leader and